I mean, I bow to your nerd knowledge, but are you sure that autolanding was not added later or something?

I just vividly remember the first landing shuttles being escorted by a pair of fighters reading altitude figures aloud (presumably to help their colleague at the helm inside the shuttle) - ending with a TOUCHDOWN. IIRC in the tv footage we would only hear the voices of the pilots of the escorting jets. And the stories about how this is exceptionally tough for the pilot, because A) unlike the usual aircrafts the shuttle has no reserve throttle power to be used, if something goes wrong, B) the speed of a landing shuttle is something like 350 km/h (over 200 mph), way faster than, say, jet liners need (I guess the shuttle would stall if it attempted to land with an air speed of 200 km/h or thereabouts).

Of course, my memory may be affected by the fact that one the first computer games (for one of those beauties with 16 kB RAM) that a high school class mate coded was to bring a landing shuttle down.

Oh God! And now shuttles are considered outdated... But, but they are the new thing ...

I'm a bit more distracted by the fact that it certainly appears that she DOES have a tramp stamp, though. Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I don't think we've seen it before. It looks like writing just peeking out over the top of her shorts to me.

Maybe the tattoo IS Yelling Bird -- Sweet-Tits finally having gotten tired of him -- and the foulmouthed avian w've been assuming is YB isn't. Would explain the offmodel colors on our offcolor bird.Maybe this is YB's cousin Spike. You know, from Needles.

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"We are who we pretend to be. So we had better be careful who we pretend to be." -- Kurt Vonnegut.

Hmmm Somehow, with a name like "Sweet-Tits", I was expecting a more bodacious and/or bountiful rack.

Sweet is a matter of taste, not size.

....aaaaand I'll just leave that thought lie there now.

You know that proverb about the two brothers who had to grow the King some melons to prove which one was the rightful heir? And the one that grew the smallest pair won, because his were sweetest?Toootally different perspective now...

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"I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage

I thought that wasn't until post Columbia and even then it required an extra cable from the Ground Control Interface on the mid-deck up to the flight deck. Because if memory serves they never landed an orbiter on autopilot (as compared to Buran which landed itself just 10' off the centerline in a 30 kt crosswind).

I'm pretty amazed she can get her whole hands into those shorts' pockets. They're not totally short-shorts but in my experience, pockets on shorts a couple inches above the knee are more for show than for practicality.

I'm pretty amazed she can get her whole hands into those shorts' pockets. They're not totally short-shorts but in my experience, pockets on shorts a couple inches above the knee are more for show than for practicality.

It's easier if your hands are balled into little fists due to having to talk with Yelling Bird.

Akronnick, I can think of no more appropriate steed for a Knight Of The Dickbroom than a foul-mouthed, perpetually shouting, lust-crazed bird with a scrotum hanging from its chin and a distinctive cry of "Gobble gobble gobble". --Tergon

We've had discussions about a QC TV series, but the more likely series is one revolving aorund Randy, isnce he'd be perfect for all sorts of spinoff merchandise ie Giant Size Huggable Randy, Talking and Dancing Randy With 50 Words and Phrases etc. Of course what would actually happen is the series would never see the light of day after the folks making the pilot actually included Yelling Bird. Because even bleeped you can't hint that a character on a US kid's show (and to sell all that crap they'd want it aimed at kids) is swearing.